Process of surfacing walls



Feb. 19 1924. 1,434,334

T. KERNER PROCESS OF SURFACING WALLS Filed Feb. 27, 1919 2 sheets-sheet a Imam-n- Feb. 19' -1924. 1,484,334 k T. KERNER PROCESS OF S URFACING WALLS Filed Feb. 27, 1919- 2 sheets-sheet z 1 35 surfaces in relief; and

THEDDOBE KERNER, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

MILWAUKEE, wrsconsm.

PROCESS OF SUBFAGING Application filed February To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Tnnononn Kenning 11,112, 1

' citizen of the United States, residing at waukee, in the county of Milwaukee and 6 Stat of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Surfacing Walls, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying-drawing, forming a part 1 thereof.

The main objects of the invention are to restore or renew the appearance of old stained, soiled or defaced walls, or to give a more finished or difierent and attractive ap pearance to new walls.

The process is applicable either to exterior or interior walls constructed of various ma-' terials, such as wood, metal, stone, brick, ce-

ment or plaster, and maybe. used to produce imitations of plain and ornamental brick,

stone and tile. work or the like in various designs and colors or shades.

In the accompanying drawing explanatory of the process and illustrating some of the numerousdesigns and kinds ,of work produced by it, like characters designate the same or similar parts or features in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a face view of a section of-wall coated and partially lined according to the invention, to imitate plain brick, tile or stone work Fig. 2 is an enlarged section in a plane perpendicular to'the face of the wall, showing a. sunk joint and ad'oining sand coated ig. 3 is a face view, similar to Fig. 1, of a section of wall coated and lined in accordance with the invention, to represent a tablet or panel set -in brick, tile or stone work.

no The process constituting the present invention is performed as follows:

A coating of paint or other suitable adhesive material, is evenly applied with a brush or by other means, to the entire wall surface to be treated. While the adhesive: coating to blast, or a special spreading tool such as is shown and described in my pending application Serial No. 267,760, filed December 21,

1918,now Patent 1,297,361. l Y

The sand is referably pressed into and as firmly embedde in the adhesive coating, and

27, 1919. Serial F0. 279,487.

the surface of the sand coating is trued or evenedby running an elastic roller over it, or by other suitable means, while the adhesive coating is in a soft or plastic condition. Strips or portions of the sand coating are removed by any suitable means, to expose the underlying plastic coating or the foundation on which it is spread, and thus produce the desired designs and effects, with sharply defined outlines between'the raised and sunk or depressed portions of the-work.

For example, a brick, tile or stone wall may be closely imitated, as shown in Fig. 1, the incised strips or shallow furrows 1, formedzby scraping 0E thesand coating 2 and exposing the underlying painter plastic coating) 3, representing sunk joints between the ricks, tiles or stones 4, which are represented naturall' in low relief by the remaining portions '0 the sand coating. The

effect thus produced by difierence in the ele-' nations of contrasting colors, tints or shades.

- In like manner various designs may be produced representing more or less ornamental or decorative panel work, tablets or the like, as well as ordinary brick, tile and stone work.

For'example as shown in Fig. 3, a lettered tablet or panel '5, in relief, with a border band 6, in relief, defined by parallel i ncised channels or sunk joints 7 is represented as.

laid or inserted in a, brick, tile or stone wallsuch as is shown in Fig. 1.

lhe coatings ma be applied, as shown in Fig.2, to a foun ation 8, of any material used in buildin construction, such as wood,-

metal, brick, ti e, stone, cement and plaster, and in resurfacing old buildings or walls, cracks and defects may be filled and repaired with any suitable material before, the coat-.

in are applied. v

, lllcised furrows 1, representing the sunk joints in regular brick, tile or stone walls, may be easily, accurately and expeditiously formed by means of a hook-shaped scraping tool with the aid of'a straight edge orinstrument resembling a parallel ruler.

Letters, figures and ornamental or decorative designs may be produced, as shown in Fig. 3, by scraping off the sand coating to correspond with the contour of the letters, figures or designs, or they may be formed in outline by furrows like or similar to those representing the sunk joints 1, of brick, tile or stone work shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The term sand as used herein is intended to include any granular or crushed material similar to natural sand, such as crushed glass, stone, pottery or the like, which may be artificially colored to give any desired effect or appearance.

I claim:

1. The process of surfacing walls of stationary structures, which consists in applying a coating of adhesive material to one side of a fixed substantially rigid wall, spreading a coating of sand evenly over the adhesive coating while it is soft, and scraping oli" parts of the sand coating according to a predetermined design, thus forming a fixed substannssasse tially rigid base having a sand surface with portions in low relief between incisions formed by removal of intervening portlons of the sand coating, the incised portions preso senting a relatively smooth surface compared with the low-relief sand portions.

2. The process of surfacing walls of stationary structures, which consists in apply ing a coating of adhesive material to one 35 side of a fixed substantially rigid wall, spreading a sand coating of contrasting color over'the adhesive coating while it is in a plastic condition, and scraping ofi' strips of I the sand coating in intersecting lines to em, as

pose the first coating, thus forming a fixed substantially rigid base having a sand surface with portions in low relief contrasting in color with the portions represented by the intersecting intervening incisions and the inis 'rnnononn ERNER." 

